Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-07

ll3 3sk offered amendment fixing
4Ssass0n of the widow of Francis P.
IT $1,000 year. asserting that II
fdow and family of any man were to
Mort of the Treasury in proportion
@suslic service it was the widow
SsEfiy of Francis 2. Blair. At the
Est OF Mr. Hawley and other Senators
withdrew the amendment and then the
waSpassed without division.
tSsssneupon introduced the bill
&STT.NSension of Mrs. Apolina
&aer month to $1,000 per
equest the bill was i'm
ed and passed.
Dnii2plunds the bill to
=! the 7Pe,'h traffic was
- sed without division.
lnS argument He said
necss< - apologize for the
s@sa acussiou. or b. Un'tnse so there ny neVer "lr
probably, in the history of this
a bill under consideration
inevitably affect, either di-
kotey, such great financial
interests this bill 1t
" hamlet, every indus
man and every labor
in the United states
.ther of evil or of good
NAJE COMBINATION.
- the bill in the di-
consolidation OF rail-
yhpaN and said that some rail-
en- believed in that as the best out
the railroad problem. No truer
bad ever been uttered than that
Animation is possible competi-
ksible. This bill left open and
Aprst kind of combination.
IYKdation of railroad corporate
What railroads to do If
led from making pooling arrange
Experience taught that the old
lArs would begin again, and the end
Fould be, as it always had been,
fidaton.
p THE CRADLES OF MONOPOLY.
he monopolies of this country had been
III 1t the graves of weak com petitors
an bill invited grand monopoly OF rail-
I'd ca pital in this country, which would
I built ON the graves OF railroads that
|ons NJ not able to stand in competition
90s at railroad monopoly would be master
90 the people He believed it better to
p 7s AVE the business kept IN
q reat many hands than to have IL
70 onsoidated. He believed it better to let
|. Ehe little country stores live than to build
W TX Yhp great mercantile establishments at
10 their expense. He believed it better to
~ let the weak railroads live to build
- = - UP one magnificent railroad corporation
that would occupy to the railroad bus-
~~~H m ness Of the country the same position
II u the Western Union Telegraph Company
bears to the telegraph business OF the
Rtry.
ITS EFFECT ON ALABAMA.
G Hr Morgan stated the which
NJ y would influence his vote against the BILL
y \ He content with it in respect of
Pits practical effect on the people OF his
own State. Alabama was at the farther
Southern margin of the United States
[i.h The markets in which her people bought
h ~ their dry goods and large part of their
Enfs groceries at the far North and East
FIe and there was broad intervening area
rom between them. The markets in
|me, 4 which they bought their food
L. a Rhsupples Chicago, st. Louis and Cncin-
r. nat were aso far distant from Alabama
q, The markets in which they sold their pro-
- ducts were all distant. They had a vast
N tract OF country to cross in getting either
~ Il % The market of purchase or the market
|%eN Esale, so that he thought that any bill
Which forced the railroad companies to
L. raise their charges freight for long
~. hauls would be necessarily inimcal to
|ped the best interests Of his State That prac-
ticaI statement OF the reasons why ne OPP
posed the bill would be quite sufficient,
Pr Ne said, Justify hum In the course he
h fet compelled to take toward it.
a. STATES RIGHTS AND POWERS.
:. But he had other lie then
proceeded to argue that The States
-. uaItectly competent to deal with this
|erAh> A iect, and that the interference of the
|ani-v y. eral government would lead to still
Eos' ther inyasons, until the management
= aIroads would eventually become the
Il. absorbing business OF the Congress
readed to enter on that field, and
|erY |erpY a citizen he bowed to the decision Of
logs, Supreme Court, but, AS q senator, be
and lestlOned II with sense OF duty which
|c.rs uld not permit him to adopt it. He
IN Fld not subscribe TO the doctrine that
P"S- srstate commerce could Ouiy be pro-
- he'd through the action OF Congress. The
was based solely on that false prom
|nr. DOOR TO DANGER.
|pur kppened the door to interference of
Ien with every regulation Of trade
|a n commerce. 1t exposed the charter
The very railroad company (given by
with es) to notifications through acts OF
be OF gress. For hundred years the States
assisted and protected interstate
. !.
ktV hmerce. Congress- doubling the ex-
Fxhs 1t Of its powers, had permitted such
distance and protection the part Of
Fla States, and in doing SO had blessed the
In buntry by its inacton. The principle OF
|ries is bill would end in making merchan-
Peils seof politics, while 1t ruled and ruined
|ox asiness. He admitted all that had been
Fo'' n Ni as to the suferings and wrongs OF
- III people through the greed OF railroad
Be, 4 Snpanies, but in finding a remedy for
bs bsvjl he neither wished to find for tho
dNle master (remote from them
|fords IA their h1uence) IN Congress, nor TO
pure 49, in the hands of that master a
~ aver their trade and
1Spus to them than even